Um, is this Tardhalla? We were expecting something, you know, a little different.

HA HA THIS IS YOU

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

It's official! Before, comments would show as awaiting moderation. But after the latest round of deletions, new comments just disappear into the ozone.

Silent Bannination! Among the offending posts was one about mammary glands.

The real reason might be because there was some interest in the question of the nested hierarchy, and how we can recognize this pattern in biology. The Tard Bosses had to stop it before the meme spread amongst the Tard Minions. There can be no resolution of this fundamental issue, because ID absolutely depends on equivocation.

Interestingly, there are a number of questions being addressed to Zachriel, but Zachriel doesn't reply! ID wins again!

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I was going to say, "unbelievable!"

But what could be more believable than this?

Thank you for your most excellent (and most courteous) contributions, Zachriel. They throw the unalloyed nitwittery of UD into stark relief.

--------------Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."- David Foster Wallace

"Hereâ€™s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down."- Barry Arrington

Wait, if I honestly believe no one could have the ignorant viewpoint on adaptive phenotypic plasticity that RichardTHughes has without flying a plane into a building someday, isn't it my scientific duty to say so?

Or would you all rather censor the progress of science like a bunch of fascists?

I'm not saying everyone who believes plasticity generates novel opportunities for selection to act flies planes into buildings, because some of them are probably handicapped or afraid of flying.

h.pesoj is the same sock puppet as George L. Farquar. He’s no longer with us. I had previously banned him under George, and now he’s gone under his backwards “josep.h” name. Also, to whomever is interested, Voice Coil is no longer with us, because that was a sock puppet for Diffaxial, who I had previously banned. In short, they were both old sock puppets from the past, previously banned, and now banned again, nothing new to see here. :)

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--------------To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov

h.pesoj is the same sock puppet as George L. Farquar. He’s no longer with us. I had previously banned him under George, and now he’s gone under his backwards “josep.h” name. Also, to whomever is interested, Voice Coil is no longer with us, because that was a sock puppet for Diffaxial, who I had previously banned. In short, they were both old sock puppets from the past, previously banned, and now banned again, nothing new to see here.

Only problem with that reasoning, Clive, is that Diffaxial was banned for the sole reason that he systematically disassembled StephenB's tiresomely repetitive premodern arguments, laying bare his tautological, constantly changing and inconsistently applied "eternal truths" and "rules of right reason" for the obsolete horseshit they are. We all understand you were embarrassed for him, and the only recourse was the banning stick.

--------------Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."- David Foster Wallace

"Hereâ€™s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down."- Barry Arrington

Your point of view is of course claptrap elitist nonsense that is part and parcel of a narrow worldview and a narrow experience set that is usually held by socially-inept atheistic shut-ins.

,composer pointed out that this was like Nixon's "plausible deniability," one step away from name-calling. That comment appeared but then disappeared without comment, and a little bird tells me composer has been silently banned.

Clive, I won't call you names on UD, but over here I'll gladly note that you're a gutless prick unable to acknowledge his own decisions.

--------------"I am not currently proving that objective morality is true. I did that a long time ago and you missed it." -- StephenB

There was a commenter named “cranium”, who I banned and deleted his comment.

crania

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

There was a commenter named “cranium”, who I banned and deleted his comment.

crania

Both forms are acceptable. Check it out. Plus extension of one's pinkie is necessary to refer to crania, difficult while typing.

But necessary for a lady during the proper consumption of tea, don't you know.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

Several squatting intellects at UD are clamoring for a response from Merthin Builder.

Phaedros wants one:

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Merthin Builder-Here’s a pertinent quote from C.S. Lewis which might get you on your way, “If I ?nd in myself a desire which no experience?in the world can satisfy, the most probable?explanation is that I was made for another?world.”

"Above" wants one:

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@Merthin Builder. You said:“It always seemed to me that the fact that the insinuation into the human brain of a physical substance consisting of a dozen or so atoms arranged into a well-understood structure can trigger such profound changes in consciousness establishes beyond a doubt the fact that consciousness is grounded in and is a property of the physical and functional organization of the brain” That is a very extravagant claim to make...

Batshit wants one:

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Merthin Builder, I don’t get it, What exactly are you trying to establish with your post? Do you really want to try to defend that consciousness is merely a “emergent” property of the brain?…

Batshit REALLY wants one:

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Merthin Builder, I still would like to know exactly where you wanted to go with your line of reasoning, if you could unpackage it for me I would appreciate it. I get the strong drift you are trying to maintain the wrong position that we are purely material beings, But you denied that yet I resolutely hold the that we are indeed,,,?,,, Spirits in the material World – Police

It’s not just drugs that alter consciousness. Everything that happens to someone has an affect on their consciousness. All painful and pleasurable experiences alter the brain and the consciousness of people...